Vulgar words in Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 (Page 1)
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We really might have gone off, the whole lot of us, masterful staff officer, dainty registration clerks, highly efficient stenographer, etc., and had a good time; he would have run the show perfectly well without us--a Hirst, a Jimmy Wilde, a "Tetrarch," as he was amongst scouts.
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Pontifically, compassionately, almost affectionately indeed, he makes it plain to you what an ass you in reality are, and he looks so wise the while that you are hardly able to bear it.
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"No, don't put it that way, tell it him like this"--"He'll damn me and you, but whatever you do, don't make excuses," and so forth.
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Rendering M. Thomas into English, M. Mantoux would sweep back an imaginary wisp of hair with an imprecation which I am confident was a "damn!"
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There followed an agonizing little pause during which you had time to think that you had got the thing wrong, had made an ass of yourself, and were disgraced for evermore.
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When you have been such an ass as to ride your horse into a bog, there is a good deal of excuse for your botching getting the beast out again, as that is in the nature of things a difficult job.